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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
2 February 2011
Employment Watch Winter 2011 - Cases before the courts in 2011
We are waiting for several court decisions that could significantly change our current interpretation of employment regulations. Questions before the courts that will be answered this year include:
27 January 2011
Radical shake-up of the employment tribunal system
It has been a long time coming but we now have the Coalition Government's blueprint for a radical shake up of the employment tribunal system. This is very much going to set the agenda for the lifetime of this Parliament, as far as employment reform is concerned.
26 January 2011
Did Sky have a choice?
Did Sky have a choice on whether or not to fire Andy Gray? Sexual harassment is defined in the Equality Act as unwanted conduct of a sexual nature that has the purpose or effect of violating a person’s dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them. Certainly Sky would have a case to answer based on press reports of his behaviour while Gray was their employee...
26 January 2011
Will Andy Gray sue Sky?
After all the recent interest in Miriam O’Reilly’s age discrimination employment tribunal claim against the BBC, there has been widespread media coverage this week of a very different sort of employment dispute: the row over the behaviour of Sky Sports’ presenters Andy Gray and Richard Keys.
18 January 2011
Shared parental leave: wishful thinking?
Yesterday, Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, outlined the Coalition Government’s proposals to overhaul shared parental leave, claiming that the current “Edwardian” rules “patronise women and marginalise men”.